Category Archives: Lifestyle
1% Fitness FAQs – The Best Time to Exercise?
We all have a slightly different chronobiology. Meaning, optimal timing for you, may not be optimal for someone else; no matter what topic we’re discussing. This even holds true when it comes to exercise. Although, there appears to be a more significant factor. “From a practical point of view, adaptation to strength training is greater…
Top Vegetarian Myths Exposed
We can all picture a big slab of butter-coated red meat clogging our arteries, or decaying in our gut and releasing harmful toxins, because it’s been hammered into our heads since most of can remember. Especially when it’s the processed, factory-farmed, GMO-fed, antibiotic-pumped meat we wrongfully assume is all that’s available. Add the latest talk…
Research Recap – Aug 2015
With the recent developments in nutrition, you’d think pigs were flying. The government removed the restrictions on dietary cholesterol, and the unfair demonization of saturated fat is finally getting exposed. That being said, it’s fair to say that the memo still hasn’t arrived at a few million cubicles. Including those of the doctors and dieticians…
Ditching The Standard American DUMP (S.A.D.)
Once we started using the high-boy toilet, it didn’t take long for us to forget that we used to squat in the bush. And sadly, we never stopped to think that the maybe the 90-degree crapper isn’t ideal. What’s interesting, is that various cultures around the world never adopted the American Standard toilet. Opting for…
Asthma? Eczema? Headaches? IBS? Arthritis? Depression? Go With Your Gut
The bacteria in our gut accounts for more than 75% of our immune system, and plays an integral part in regulating our metabolism, supporting our gastrointestinal system, and protecting us from infection. As previously discussed, the over-use of antibiotics (and prescription medication in general) is largely to blame for the compromised gut health we’re now…
10 Red Flags You’re Unhealthy That You Call “Normal”
Doctors use symptoms to diagnose illnesses, and one could say a symptom is your body’s way of communicating something is wrong. The problem is, some of us have lived with these symptoms for so long, they’re no longer classified as symptoms anymore. They’re simply classified as “normal.” Many times these problems are treated with medication,…
Ketone Strips & Meters – The New Scale?
One of the requirements to following Live It NOT Diet! is throwing your scale in the garbage. Mainly because the number is useless – telling you nothing about your body composition (fat-to-muscle) – but also because it messes with your mental state – giving you the impression that you’re not losing (or even gaining), and…
Don’t Mess With the Microbes – Gut Bacteria, Obesity, and Disease
The hottest trend in 21st century research (at the time of writing this post) is swapping the gut microbes of mice to pinpoint the impact of different bacterial strains on our health and body composition. With various studies showing considerable evidence that a bacteria-shift alone can turn a lean mouse into a fat mouse (1,…